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‘El mundo iluminado, y yo despierta’: screening Sor Juana in the films of Bemberg and Pereda

Abstract:
Literary life has proved a popular subject for filmmakers over the years: poets in particular have become the fictionalized protagonists of biographical pictures or historical dramas.¹ The question that occupies this chapter is what happens to the literary work when the writer becomes the subject of the filmmaker’s attentions. As Speranza (2002) argues, it is perfectly possible to screen such a story — particularly that of a colourful or controversial poet — without producing a ‘poetic’ film, in any understanding of the term. Here we compare a film from Argentina and a Mexico/Canada co-production, both based on the life and...
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Medieval & Modern Languages Faculty
Sub department:
Spanish
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Medieval & Modern Languages Faculty
Sub department:
Spanish
Role:
Editor
Role:
Editor


Publisher:
Legenda
Host title:
The Poetry-Film Nexus in Latin America: Exploring Intermediality on Page and Screen
Pages:
187-206
Chapter number:
9
Series:
Moving Image
Series number:
11
Place of publication:
Cambridge
Publication date:
2022-02-23
Edition:
1
EISBN:
9781781889176
ISBN:
9781781889152


Language:
English
Subtype:
Chapter
Pubs id:
1130255
Local pid:
pubs:1130255
Deposit date:
2020-09-04

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